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Once Around The Sun
04:19
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I live like a ghost in the age of steam
These walls can't keep me from you
On every darkened street where gas light cannot gleam
If you're there I will be too
Every broken heart
Can be replaced by another part
Until you are machine through and through
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I will carry you once around the sun
I will follow too once and then we're done
You can't call them dreams because they come when I'm awake
Clutter up the scenery
I see strange machines traveling through space
Waiting for us to fly away
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If I have to dig you from the dirt
I'll carry you to the ends of the earth
I've got nothing left to say that can't be written on my grave
I know my time is coming soon
But you should come with me, we'll cross that starry sea
Where the sounds of silver trumpets call us home
Chorus:
Every single ghost will drift away
On that day
I will fade
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2. |
The Ghost In My Guitar
03:30
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I take a deep breath. It's not enough.
The spirits that I hear are loud and clear. It's not enough.
I might be possessed
There's a pressure in my chest
I feel hung up wet. A marionette at rest.
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They come from near and far
For the ghost in my guitar
It's some kind of fate. The way we reincarnate
I'm lost and damned, hollow with sorrow.
It's how I operate
Memories are burred, civilizations lost.
Countless wandering souls with rivers and veils to cross.
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Rising up from the ground
Floating down from the sky
These apparitions
Fill coliseums
Stay silent through the night
To hear the ghost in my guitar
Rising from the wood, ringing on the strings
Traveling out through the air is the message that it brings.
Every room falls quiet when you leave your body behind.
Somewhere in the distance are the lands we pray to find.
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3. |
Our Future Is In The Sky
04:02
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I dreamed last night that I could fly
When I woke up this morning there were blueprints by my bedside
For a strange machine powered by steam
Now I'm up here on the roof of my house
Making some wings from my wife's old blouse.
And the 19th century is passing us by
Gentlemen, oh no! please don't settle in
Our future is in the sky
Strap on your headgear. The epitome of austere
Hop right into my flying machine and we'll chart the new frontier
Cities in the clouds, castles tall and proud
And if we survive the take off imagine the response from the crowd.
And the 20th century is sneaking up behind
Gentle men, oh no! please don't settle in
Our future is in the sky
Again I apologize, I'd never try to take your life.
Clearly there were flaws in my flying machine design.
But the past is history, my friend you and me
We'll depart tomorrow morning for a journey under the sea.
And the 21st century is still a long ways away
Gentlemen, I may have changed my mind again,
Our future is under the waves...
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Old Folk Roam
04:29
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Way down upon the Swanee River, far far away
That is where my heart burns forever, where the old folk stay.
All up and down the whole of creation, madly I roam.
Still haunted by that old plantation, what the old folk call home.
Chorus:
All the world is sad and dreary
And we are all alone
That is where evil burns forever
Where the old folk roam
One little hut among the bushes still haunts my dreams
That is where my memory rushes and I awake in screams
When I hear bee's buzzing around that hive
And when I hear banjo playing I run and hide
Chorus:
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In my laboratory I build
Plans and devices that amaze and thrill
But tonight I will begin
To test my new invention
Animate these corpses to my whim
Chorus:
Ladies will faint
Gentlemen cry
Fire burns the earth
Smoke fills the sky
You can run and hide or fight and die
When the dead crawl from the earth alive
From the top of my tower I look down
On the ancient cemetery outside of this Victorian town
One by one
Your cities fall, they're overrun
So surrender to my zombies or be crushed under my thumb
Chorus:
Since I raised the dead two months have come and gone
Every part of my plan has gone wrong
The dead have come back home
They're clawing on the stone
Trying to break these walls and eat my bones
It seems you can't control the undead
They have a hunger that must be fed
But I have a plan to survive
There's a machine that I've devised
That'll send them back to Hell
If I still have enough time
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6. |
Bad Moon Rising
03:45
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I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reprint the lyrics so I won't.
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7. |
Time Machine
03:08
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I've asked you here to clear the air and address all the rumors I'm sure you hear
I've been locked away with no sleep for days but I've done it and now my work is on display
Chorus:
Venting steam
Glowing green
Leaking kerosene
It's my time machine
I will flip this switch stand back!
You've never seen smoke this black
Please sit back down, it's perfectly safe
I've done this before, I practice on apes
Chorus:
Who knows the danger that I might face
Traveling all across time and space
There's evil out there, miracles too
With the power of steam I might make it through
This crank here
Turns the gears
Hold on to your beards
Things might get weird
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I was just a boy when I built my clockwork telescope, caught glimpses of the people who lived up in the sky.
And now I'm grown with science in my bones and one day I'll build an airship that'll make it up that high
My ancestors that came before
Are back and knocking on my bedroom door
All the ghosts I've seen so far
Whisper that I should look to the stars
Chorus:
Hold your hopes
Face your fears
Dust off your Dreams
Welcome to the age of steam
I spend my days in a laboratory 20,000 feet deep under the hill and now it seems I have some empty slabs to fill.
All night in the cemetery digging bodies from their graves, attaching these contraptions to their decomposing heads.
All these zombies walking around
I dug each one from out of the ground
A supernatural Professor James Moriarty
Building an undead army
Chorus:
Alchemist and scientist, your paranormal specialist, where the supernatural and the natural worlds will merge.
So many people refuse to believe but I have faith in both: the ghost and the machine!
The exploration of dangerous places
Aided by scientific devices
Every quest for mythic lore
Takes us to some foreign shore
Chorus:
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9. |
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03:39
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Jonah Knight Fair Oaks, California
Jonah is the world's premier Paranormal Modern Folk musician. From a singer/songwriter background, his songs are about ghosts, monsters, supernatural creepiness, and steampunk.
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